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I’m a blue, what are you?

Although the scientific data is hard to come by, the psychology of colours is something that surrounds us. People have created businesses, websites, you name it based on these beliefs that colours either enhance or encourage certain emotions.

People with red personality typeare said to be energetic, passionate people who love attention. They dream big and word hard tomakes those dreams a reality. Working the best with and around other people, red personalities are competitive and original.

YELLOW

The yellow wavelength is also long at around 600nm and creates an emotional stimulus. Yellow, like Goethe thought, is said to be the most psychologically strong colour.

People with the yellow personality typeare energetic and fun people to be around. They are extremely independent people who dream up big dreams but sometimes lack the focus to make these dreams real. Yellow personalities prefer a smaller group of friends and prefer mental tasks like puzzles to physical ones.

GREEN

The wavelength of green is around 550nm, situating it in the centre of the spectrum. This gives green the colour of balance.

Is said to stimulate your pituitary gland and decrease allergy symptoms

Encourages positive feelings of freedom, generosity, youth and health

Also represents negative feelings of laziness, envy and frankness

In religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, the heart chakra is represented as green

People with green personality typeare thought to be the most sincere types of people. They are very open, honest and can see the bigger picture. With great manners and good-timing they can read people well and therefore have large social networks and are supportive, loyal friends to have.

BLUE

The blue wavelength isn’t anything too special at around 470nm. However blue is the most liked colour across the world.

Also represents negative feelings of despair, depression and isolation

Blue is the colour of the United Nations Flag

People with the blue personality typeare ultimately looking for peace. They very much value routine and familiarity but work extremely well as both an employee and employer. They enjoy having lots of friends and value both friends and family highly making them reliable and trustworthy people to have around.

PURPLE

The colour with the shortest wavelength is violet (purple) at around 400nm and it’s also the last visible wavelength before ultra-violet rays. This is said to create associations with time, space & the universe.

Also represents negative feelings of grief, solitude, vanity and secrecy

In Ancient cultures, purple represented wealth and in Catholicism purple is representative of Lent

People with purple personality typeare generally more introverted people who are creative and like to dream. They like to be different from other people and are very giving people and like to see the best in everyone. Purple personalities are gentle and intuitive people.

To delve more into what colour your personality is, you can take a test!CLICK HERE. Just scroll on down and click on the big red “START TEST” button!

I got blue, what are you?

DISCLAIMER:
I admit, I am a sucker for finding information that can “match” my personality to colours, songs, breeds of puppies and celebrities, my star sign, you name it. However, I don’t truly believe that in spirit I am in fact a golden retriever nor do I need to define myself as a colour.

This is a blog which investigates the psychological traits that are matched to colours as there is a MULTITUDE of resources out there which do it. It’s a bit of fun, it’s fascinating and there is a little bit of science to it!